A special Sunday event, a photographic essay celebrating a few of these magnificent raptors. Not Falcons (nor Patriots), these superb owls hail from Europe, Asia, North and South America, captured in photos both recent and more than a century old. If you have some time today before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely) I invite you to have a look. [28 photos total]

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A man stops to pose for photographs on his motorcycle, carrying his pet owl and dog, as he arrives at an area where Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate, Marina Silva, will campaign in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, on August 30, 2014.
(Leo Correa / AP)
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A Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) reacts after being fed at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) center in Amritsar, India, on November 16, 2012. The owl which is rarely seen in this region became entangled in the string of a kite string and was rescued by SPCA members.
(Narinder Nanu / AFP / Getty)
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Passers-by take a selfie with owl "Wasabi" perching on the arm of Chihiro Kawamoto, an owl cafe employee, on a street at Harajuku shopping district in Tokyo, on March 6, 2016.
(Shizuo Kambayashi / AP)
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A burrowing owl rests on the ninth hole of the Olympic golf course near its nest in a sand bunker during a practice round for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 5, 2016.
(Eric Gay / AP)
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Visitors look at a larger-than-life photograph of a snowy owl, part of an exhibition at the Summer Garden, in St. Petersburg on May 23, 2013. The annual street photo-exhibition, which consists of 60 photos displaying animals and birds listed in the Red Book of Russia, was organized to match the International Day for Biological Diversity introduced by the United Nations General Assembly.
(Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters)
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An owl flies over the stadium during the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier football match between Honduras and Trinidad & Tobago, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on November 15, 2016.
(Gerardo Mazariegos / AFP / Getty)
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